Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-12-01
SUNDAY GOSSIP.

Jana yesterday TO spend Sunday
with his parents at the Windsor.
lie was accompanied by his friend
Ralph Pearson, who wanted to catch
q glimpse Of Mexico. no. he
said, in answer to the reporters
question, II don't think Louisiana
il as good a town as Mexico, but
its a good town.
"Do / get tired2'' echoed Clerk
Galop, of the general delivery
window at the post-oifice Yesterday,
and he glared at the reporter and
dampened his thumb on his tongue
SO as to facilitate matters while
looking over q big pile of letters.
well, rather. Yesterday was a
big day and of course we are rushed
to death this afternoon. Now here
comes another crowd, watch 'em."
Anything f'rus?' was the first
inquiry, made by a nine-year-old
youngster.
"Nothing."
"Nothing?" Amt there no pa
pers?" was the ungramatical re-
Spouse. The clerk shook his
head and pushed out a letter and a
paper to the next man in line. The
crowd pushed and jostled, every
one trying to be the next served.
This was kept up for a quarter of an
hour, when the jam thinned out.
The clerk paused to breath, then he
leaned out of the window and OBJ
served to the reporter, who stood a
few feet away, where he had been
watching the crowd, an interested
spectator: eff you now think the
life of general delivery clerk is
one of ease, just come around next
Saturday afternoon at about half
past two, and if you can get near
enough, watch us work.
"The efficiency of the sig
nal service is increasing right
along, if [ am any judge" said
a prominent citizen yesterday,
land I'm mighty glad there are
people in this town with push
enough to take care of the To-
cal service. The pay there is in it
-nothing-is not calculated to
prove an incentive toward properly
looking after the Signals.
cit never falls" said a railroad
conductor; "when we have one ac-
cident we are sure to have twomore
right away. We had a collision at
Thompson at $50 last night. In
less then three hours the engine Of
passenger No. 7, left the rails at
Montgomery; not serious, but it
was on accident, all the same, and
some trouble down near st.
Louis delayed the mail this after
nom. It never fails, mark my
word"
A drummer at the Ringo House
yesterday told of a strange little
romance which come to light in
Kansas City several days ago. His
story went as follows:
"Thirty-four years ago Clark
Cleveland, then aged So years, was
united in marriage to Marion Clin-
ton, aged 10. The couple lived to-
gether for nearly fourteen years,
when they became estranged, and
finally, twenty years ago, were
divorced. Last week the two, who
had all this time been living in
that city, and neither of whom had
remarked, met accidentally at a
mutual friends house. The old
man, now aged 20, fell in love
again with his now aged ex-wife
and proposed and was accepted.
Friday the couple went quietly to
Wyandotte and were reunited in
marriage by the probate Judge
there"
"The St. Louis papers are a
couple of hours late to-day, and
those who read them are as impa-
tent as if they had not. looked at a
newspaper for a month";" said Mr..
J. d. Mckee. Eve sell a great
many papers here every day in the
week, but the trade is about even
between them. On Sunday our
sales are double that of any week
day except Saturday. Mexico is a